Comparison and evaluation of design choices for implementing the virtual interface architecture (VIA)

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1797, Issue , 2000, Pages 145-161

  Banikazemi, Mohammad ^a   Abali, Bulent ^b   Panda, Dhabaleswar K ^a  

^a Dept Of Computer and Info Science   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SPECIFICATIONS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ADDRESS TRANSLATION TABLES; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; EVALUATION OF DESIGNS; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS; HIGH BANDWIDTH COMMUNICATION; LINUX- OPERATING SYSTEM; NAS PARALLEL BENCHMARKS; VIRTUAL INTERFACE ARCHITECTURE;

PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

EID: 84956982249     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/10720115_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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